“‘And We’ll Try to Imagine What It Looks Like’: Prince, Synthesized Femininity, and the Political Potential of Vulnerability” (forthcoming), American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2018. *panel organizer

“‘Could We Go to a Movie and Cry Together?’: Prince, Vibrational Vulnerability, and the Political Possibility of Androgyny” (forthcoming), National Women’s Studies Association Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, November 2018. *panel organizer

“‘Gimme a Beat!’: Janet Jackson, New Musical Technologies, and Vibrationally Breaking the Silences on Black Life in 1980s America,” American Studies Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 2017.

“‘A Warmth That I Can Feel with Him’: Blood Orange, Black Queer Potentiality, and Affectively Reaching for the 1980s,” American Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, April 2017. *panel organizer

“Feeling It in the Break: Sensing Buried Histories and Subjectivities in La Roux’s ‘Colourless Colour,’” New Directions in Anthropology Graduate Student Conference, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, March 2015.

“Blackness, Queerness, and Becoming-Woman: Lingering in the Synthesizer’s Disorienting Sonic Spaces,” New York University Performance Studies MA Final Symposium, New York, NY, May 2014.

INVITED TALKS

“Androgyny as Artistic and Political Resistance: Artistic Interventions from the 1980s,” Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, November 28, 2017.

“Janet Jackson as a Precursor to Beyoncé and Solange Knowles,” Texas State University, San Marcos, TX, October 26, 2017.